AC9AMU10C02 Years 9 to 10 The Arts

Content descriptor compose music, manipulating and combining elements of music and compositional devices relevant to chosen styles and/or forms to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning and notate, document and/or record the music

Elaborations

• • Elaboration evaluating how different traditions, styles or contexts affect the way people respond to a piece of music; and using this information to compose a new piece of music designed to appeal to a specific audience or fulfill a specific purpose
• • Elaboration experimenting with options for using instrumentation, dynamics and expressive techniques to develop the texture of a composition
• • Elaboration working collaboratively to compose songs or instrumental music; for example, a song cycle, music theatre work or music for a film, animation or video game, or music that explores issues related to an historical or current event
• • Elaboration applying an aural understanding of key and tonality when improvising or composing
• • Elaboration experimenting with ways to combine and manipulate the elements of music and using style-specific compositional devices to develop and shape or extend compositions
• • Elaboration analysing how elements of music are typically used in a music style and using findings as a guide when arranging or re-imagining music